### Institutional Opportunism: How Electoral Fortunes Shape
### Preferences for Power-Sharing Institutions in Latin America

## Legislative Studies Quarterly
## DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12472

## Santiago Alles
## Departamento de Ciencias Sociales
## Universidad de San Andrés
## <salles@udesa.edu.ar>

## updated: 2024-07-15

Description: Legislator-level data. Survey answers for 3,915 face-to-face interviews conducted in 17 countries conducted between 2002 and 2012 by the University of Salamanca’s Parliamentary Elites in Latin America Project (Alcántara Sáez 2024). It contains information of legislators' preferences regarding power-sharing institutions, age, gender, legislative experience and ideological position. It also contains party-level information, such as party magnitude, incumbency status and party’s age. It finally contains country-level information, including measures of legislative and non-legislative powers of the president, ideological position of the president, president’s approval rating, level of democracy, consecutive years of democracy, GDP growth and inflation. 


variable		type    	source			description
--------		----		------			-----------
country			<string>				Country name
session_st		<numeric>				Legislative session started
interview_year		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Year of the interview
report_n		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	PELA report number
wave_code		<string>				Survey ID
ID			<string>				Interviewee ID
iso_alpha_3		<string>				Country ISO code
iso_alpha_2		<string>				Country ISO code
wave_group		<string>				Wave group
latest_election		<numeric>	multiple sources	Year of most recent House election
party_label		<string>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Legislator's party

pres_power		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	DV. Support for stronger presidential power
PRES_05			<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Presidential power (PELA score: 5-point scale)
PRES_06			<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Presidential power (PELA score: 10-point scale)
PR_rules		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	DV. Support for the use of proportional rules
ELEC_05			<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Proportional rules (PELA score: 10-point scale)

incumbent_party		<numeric>	multiple sources	Incumbency status (incumbent party = 1, else = 0)
pres_leg		<numeric>	Negretto 2013		Legislative powers of the president
pres_nonleg		<numeric>	Negretto 2013		Non-legislative powers of the president
leg_ideology		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Legislator left-right self-place
party_seats_pct		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Legislator party's seats (%)
age			<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Legislator age
gender			<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Legislator gender (female = 1, male = 0)
leg_exp			<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Legislator's prior experience (experienced = 1, else = 0)
party_age		<numeric>	multiple sources	Legislator party's age
party_age_log		<numeric>	multiple sources	Legislator party's age (logged)

pres_right		<numeric>	Murillo et al. 2011	Right-leaning President (dummy)
pres_left		<numeric>	Murillo et al. 2011	Left-leaning President (dummy)
Pres_Approval		<numeric>	Carlin et al. 2023	Presidential approval rating
dem_years		<numeric>	Freedom House		Consecutive years of democracy
fh_average		<numeric>	Freedom House		Freedom House rating (average)
GDP_growth_lag		<numeric>	World Bank Open Data	GDP growth (%, lag)
inflation_lag		<numeric>	World Bank Open Data	Inflation rate (%, lag)

party_wt		<numeric>	Alcántara Sáez 2024	Party weight (reconstructing floor composition)